The mighty Matilda

The little British tank that dominated the desert

Sometimes it’s the little ones you gotta watch out for. At the Royal Australian Armoured Corps museum in Puckapunyal, in Victoria, Australia, there’s a still-operational Matilda tank from the Second World War. It’s among 70 specimens of this much-loved British light tank still working around the world. The Matilda was small, cramped, and it only had a t…